Coating material for handles of sporting and trade implements and method of applying same.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT curios.

WILLIAM s. sen-Ans, or BROOKLYN, AND WYA T w. TAYLOR, OFSPUYTEN DUYVIL,

NEW Yonx.

COATING MATERIAL FOR HANDLES OF SPORTING AND TRADE IMPLEMENTS AND METHODOF APPLYING SAME.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM S. SnLLARs, acitizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, and WYATT W. TAYLOR, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Spuyten Duyvil, in the county of Bronx andState of New York, have invented a certain new and useful CoatingMaterial for Handles of Sporting and Trade Implements and Methods ofApplying Same, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved grip material or coating for allsporting or trade implements It is applicable to all handled articles,such for example as golf clubs, ball bats, tennis rackets, garden andfarm implements, steering wheels or any other implements of commercialor private use.

A leading object of the invention is to provide and apply to a handle orgrip surface a specially compounded material having properties ofelasticity, adhesiveness, nonabsorptiveness, permeability, durabilityand the particular property of being easily and quickly applied.

Another object is to provide an improved grip solution, that will adhereto all kinds of surfaces or materials and will present a nonfatiguingsurface to the hands, in that the whole body of the material afterdrying is of such a highly elastic and yielding nature that it readilymoves slightly under the hands and thus conforms to the shape of thehands and fingers without taking a set form and thereby perfectly adaptsitself to every slight change in pressure or position of the operatorshands.

Another object is to provide a grip coating that can be easily andquickl applied over any other grip material alrea y on handles withoutany particular preliminary preparation, the coating being applied insolution, preferably by immersion; it immediately permeates everycrevice and all pores of leather, cloth or other fibrous grips al-Specification of Letters Iatent.

and method of applying same.

Patented. Feb. 11, 1919.

Application filed September 11, 1914. Serial No. 861,190.

ready on the handles and dries into an elastic, non-absorptive grip asdescribed.

It is applicable to Wood or metal surfaces and will adhere to anymaterial used in the arts and industries and while we have described itas particularly applicable to grips of sporting and trade implements,the material is in every way as suitable for a coating on either flat orirregular surfaces where a coating is desired that is highly elastic,yielding, non-absorptive, plication.

The coating material which is the subject of this invention is preparedby combining gutta percha and balata rendered liquid by a suitablesolvent. We have found from experiment that a proportion of about onehalf gutta percha and one half balata with a solvent produces acomposition that wears Well and 1s very elastic and yielding under thegrip of the hand and does not become sticky or tacky from the heat ofthe hand while in use.

A preferable method of applying this solution to handles of golf clubs,for example, is by simple immersion. The material is placed in asuitable vessel and the grip end of the club immersed therein; if italready has a leather or other grip, this is not removed, as these oldgrips usually make an excellent base for the new grip, and as the guttagrip wears away from constant use, another immersion will renew the gripand keep it in good condition. This can be repeated indefinitely, it notbeing necessary to remove the worn gutta grip in order to renew it. Thislast is a feature not enjoyed by any other grip coating now known to theapplicants and constitutes one of the important features of theinvention.

Having thus described our invention, .what Weclaim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. A coatin for the handles of sporting and trade imp emcnts, comprisingmaterial, includin gutta-percha and balata, soluble in a suitab esolvent and when applied to the durable and easy of aphandle of suchimplement readily drying out free'from stickiness under ordinarytemperaand leaving said material in the form of 2m tures of use.adherent, elastic, non-absorptive surface free Signed this 27th day ofAugust, 1914, in from stickiness under ordinary temperatures thepresence of two Witnesses.

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WILLIAM S. SELLARS. 2. A sporting implement having handles coated with amaterial, including gutta-per- WYATT TAYLOR cha and balata, depositedthereon from solu- Witnesses:

tion and after drying providing a suitably W. D. FOSTER,

10 adherent,- elastic, non-absorptive surface, C. W. GRAHAM.

